]]>http://www.iheartargyle.com/2013/wordpress/learner-log/feed/0The Atavisthttp://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/the-atavist/
http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/the-atavist/#commentsSun, 08 Jul 2012 21:02:34 +0000http://www.iheartargyle.com/?p=621The Atavist is a publishing platform for e-books, recently featured in The New York Times (who also runs WordPress!) and received seed money from Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, and Founders Fund.

]]>http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/fixed-gnar-ecommerce/feed/0Blonde Summerhttp://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/blonde-summer/
http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/blonde-summer/#commentsTue, 22 May 2012 23:26:57 +0000http://www.iheartargyle.com/?p=530Blonde Summer is an indie group hailing from sunny LA. They needed development work done to a pre-existing theme to get it where they wanted it.

Tumblr integration to display Tumblr posts in a page, and also post from WordPress to Tumblr automatically.

Social sharing icons and custom CSS styling used to create page separation on blog posts.

Be sure to check out their site and have a listen to their awesome music.

Client / Blonde Summer

Project Date / 2012

Project Role / Custom Theme Modifications

]]>http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/blonde-summer/feed/0Chelsey Christensen Websitehttp://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/chelsey-christensen-website/
http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/chelsey-christensen-website/#commentsTue, 22 May 2012 23:18:51 +0000http://www.iheartargyle.com/?p=515HTML or Design to WordPress? Yeah, I do that too. Jack of all trades!

The search engines have all said “yes, we’re looking at site and page speed.” But how do you speed your WordPress site up?

There are a lot of avenues to go down when looking at how to increase your page speed in WordPress.

I’m going to touch on just a few things you can do right now.

First is to measure your WordPress sites speed using tools that Google gives you at Page Speed Online, which also has pointers on what to improve and why. Awesome, right? They tell you exactly what to do to fix your issues.

51 out of 100 is basically terrible. We can get that higher and I’m going to show you how to.

First Step:

Hop back over to your WordPress site and install WP Smush.it to get image file sizes down to optimal.

You’ll find Smush.it under “Media” in your Dashboard, or you can manually go through each image and run Smush.it. I’ve never had any trouble running the bulk options though and it only takes a few minutes.

Second Step:

Lets install the W3 Total Cache plugin. Here is where things can get rather intimidating as W3 Total Cache plugin is pretty in-depth and complicated. I’m just going to run you through some basic settings that should work well for speeding up most WordPress sites.

You’ll notice a new tab at the bottom of the dashboard labeled Performance. Give her a click and lets get underway.

Here are some basic settings I suggest to speed up your WordPress site:

General:

Enable Page Cache and select Disk: Enhanced.

Enable Minify and select Auto. The default settings should be fine unless you have a preference for what HTML, JS, and CSS minifier you use.

Unless you are on a VPS or Dedicated solution, you should leave Database and Object Cache both set to disabled.

You can leave advanced settings alone. Cache Preload if you’re on a quick hosting environment with the default settings. You can try it on a shared environment, but lower the Pages Per Interval to 5-7.

You may want to toggle this off later to see how it effected load time.

]]>http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/wordpress/slidedeck-2-released-wordpress/feed/029 Ways To Stay Creativehttp://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/creative/29-ways-to-stay-creative/
http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/creative/29-ways-to-stay-creative/#commentsTue, 20 Mar 2012 16:22:09 +0000http://www.iheartargyle.com/?p=464So true… especially getting away from the computer and carrying a notebook everywhere. You never know when the ideas are going to start pouring.

]]>http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/creative/29-ways-to-stay-creative/feed/0The Definition of Communityhttp://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/misc/the-definition-of-community/
http://www.iheartargyle.com/2012/misc/the-definition-of-community/#commentsMon, 19 Mar 2012 18:10:16 +0000http://www.iheartargyle.com/?p=459Sometimes when you have an epiphany about something, you just have to sketch it out!

I was having great conversation over lunch with Ceeko / Shishir at NextSpace SJ about design and user flow, UX, that kinda geeky stuff. I had to leave but while out I just had great ideas pop in my head. Shishir was gone by the time I returned but this big blue dry eraser wall wasn’t!

I’m just happy everyone loved it and I can’t wait for Ceeko to launch to see if my idea or parts of it were adapted to the final design.